luán

fabulous bird

Components

Meaning component
also

bird

Sound component
niǎo bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

fabulous bird Traditional

Components

Meaning component
luán tie together

bird

Sound component
niǎo bird

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlwan[r]ˤonphoenix
Zhengzhangb·roːn
Unicodeluɑn

說文解字

亦神靈之精也。赤色,五采,雞形。鳴中五音,頌聲作則至。从鳥䜌聲。周成王時氐羌獻鸞鳥。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica